Missionary Landscapes in the Dark ContinentA.D.F. Randolph, 1892 - 264 pages |
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Page 104 - The path of duty was the way to glory : He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Thro...
Page 186 - The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the broad belt of the world, All these he saw ; but what he fain had seen He could not see, the kindly...
Page 106 - It has opened many a prison-door. It is ordained to break every chain. I have faith in its triumphs. I do not, cannot despair.
Page 82 - And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.
Page 256 - Here's a work of God half done, Here's the kingdom of His Son, With its triumph just begun — Put it through! " Father Abram, that man thrives Who with every weapon strives, Use our twenty million lives — Put it through! " "Tis to you the trust is given, 'Tis by you the bolt is driven, By the very God of Heaven, Put it through!
Page 203 - About four days before our arrival at Ohambele an old rich woman was dead and buried. When the grave was dug, two female slaves were taken, whose limbs were smashed with clubs. Being unable to stir, they were let down into the grave, yet alive, on mat or bed on which the corpse of the mistress was laid, and screened from sight for a time. Two other female slaves were laid hold of and dressed up with best clothes and coral beads.
Page 3 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 205 - Long, long is the fight, but the God of light Is ever watching near us ; And prayers that rise to the listening skies Like a song of hope shall cheer us.
Page 40 - It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; on the east by the...
Page 97 - There, close beside me, was the Katikiro, the second man in the kingdom. There, on every hand, were chiefs of various degrees, all Christian men, and all in their demeanour devout and earnest to a degree. The responses in their heartiness were beyond anything I have heard even in Africa.